Emergency Response Officer - London, United Kingdom - CAFOD

CAFOD

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Description

Starting Salary:
With

London Weighting:
£35,703 - £37,210**
Without

London Weighting:
£32,019 - £33,526

Contract: 2-year fixed-term (with possibility of extension)

Hours of work: 35 hours per week

Location:
UK-based, location flexible with potential for remote working

Job Profile

The Emergency Response Officer (ERO) has a global remit to contribute to the delivery of effective and high-quality humanitarian assistance to new and ongoing humanitarian crises.

As part of CAFOD's Emergency Response and Support Team (ERST), the ERO provides technical in-country and remote operational support to humanitarian and emergency response programmes.

The ERO also supports the implementation and maintenance of systems and procedures for ensuring good practice and meeting sectoral standards on accountability and programme quality.

Working with partners is central to CAFOD's humanitarian response and the ERO will play an important role in developing the capacity of partners to prepare for, mitigate the impact of, and respond to disasters by providing support, knowledge and building long-term capacity.

All roles undertaken by the ERO will have the aim of achieving peace, security and recovery in accordance with CAFOD's mission and values.

The surge capacity provided by members of CAFOD ERST is usually in the form of field deployments or remote support for short-term leadership, management, coordination, or technical support to a wide range of new and ongoing humanitarian crises.

Deployments and support may focus on specific areas such as assessments, response options analysis, proposal development, project design and implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and reporting.

A key component of the ERO role is to be part of CAFOD's ERST surge capacity - providing immediate, usually short-term support to our humanitarian response teams in crisis-stricken countries, as well as remote support.

The ERO position has a global remit and could deploy to and or provide remote support to our humanitarian responses around the globe.

The post-holder will hold a
thematic focus for food security and emergency livelihoods, providing technical expertise in these areas.
This role will be required to undertake travel, sometimes at very short notice and to insecure environments.

This could be for up to 12 weeks at a time, for up to 6 months a year (possibly more in exceptional circumstances).

Any travel exceeding 6 months a year will be mutually agreed by post holder and line manager.
The post holder is line managed by the Senior Emergency Response Officer within the International Programme Group (IPG). The role does not have line management or budget responsibilities

The post holder will be expected to work closely with the Humanitarian Funding team, particularly regarding the technical review of institutional proposals and reports prior to submission to donors.

The post holder will also work closely with the Inclusion and Gender Advisor in the Programme Quality and Partner Support team.

Key Responsibilities

Emergency preparedness and response support (60%)

Play a lead role in providing food security and emergency livelihoods expertise and 'surge capacity' to new and ongoing humanitarian crises through remote or incountry operational support, and other support as needed such as needs assessment, project design, development and implementation, monitoring, evaluation, and reporting.
Support the planning and implementation of humanitarian programmes providing technical support and guidance to CAFOD core programme teams and partner organisations to design and deliver high quality assistance in relief, rehabilitation and recovery phases of humanitarian response and preparedness, particularly in the areas of food security and emergency livelihoods.
Support core programme teams to prepare for and respond to new or escalating humanitarian needs.
Support technical aspects of proposal development and design of food security, CVA and emergency livelihoods programming and contribute to technical aspects of report writing requirements.
Work with the Emergency Response and Support Team to monitor and analyse new and ongoing emergencies, support corporate decision making on responses to these crises through timely provision of assessment.
Identify opportunities for scaling up CAFOD's humanitarian work and support the Humanitarian Funding Officers in the development of proposals for institutional funding and reporting to donors.

Partnerships building and maintenance (10%)

Support the capacity building of new and or strategic humanitarian partners upon request.
Support the capacity of strategic partners to anticipate, prepare for and respond to humanitarian needs.
Build and maintain the daytoday relationships with partners in designated regions, including with partners that do not fall under a country programme in the International Programme Group but where CAFOD has emergency programme